"Voices of Ancient Abbeys": Plainchant & medieval polyphony
Multiple performers
2h19
2 CD
HMX2908548.49
Apple Music
Between the early Middle Ages and the thirteenth century, the great abbeys were key artistic centres, the focus of intensive musical creation. From Santiago de Compostela to Saint-Denis, from Royaumont to Fontevraud by way of Mont Saint-Michel, the walls of these imposing edifices echoed to the finest voices in the medieval West, in the service of the original sung repertory of the Roman Church: Gregorian chant. This anthology is an invitation to explore eight centuries of sacred music as it was celebrated in such monastic houses.
Chant of the Church of Milan · Lucernarium: Paravi lucernam Christo meo (4'37) · Alleluia - Versus: Hodie in Bethlehem puer natus est (7'21) Chant from Benevento Cathedral The Adoration of the Cross · Antiphona: Otin to stauron / O quando in cruce (6'45) · Responsorium: Amicus meus osculi me traditVersus: Retulit triginta argenteis (6'37) · Chant of the Church of Rome Byzantine influences Offertorium: Terra tremuitV. Notus in Iudea - V. Et factus est in pace - V. Ibi confregit (9'57) Old Roman Chant Vespers of Easter Day (6th-13th centuries) · Antiphona Alleluia. Psalmus 110 Confitebor. Antiphona Alleluia (3'43) · Oratio Concede questimus (1'11) · R. In die resurrectionis. V. Congregabo gentes (2'56) Gregorian Chant Gallican responsories and monophonic chants · Cum audisset. Gallican antiphon (3'28) · Omnes amici mei. Responsory (Mode III) (3'24) · Tristis est anima mea. Responsory (translation of a Byzantine chant) (3'11) Cistercian Chant Responsories of Matins for the Feast of St Bernard · Prima virtus viri sancti (3'09) · Testamentum eternum (5'33) · Oliva fructifera (3'19) · Dedit Dominus confessionem sancto suo (5'24)
1000: Mass for the End of Time · Alleluia II: Ascendens Cristus (4'53) · Lectio: Apocalypsis 21:1-5 (2'39) · Prosa: Regnantem sempiterna (2'35) · Hymnus: Cives celestis patrie (5'37) The Great Pilgrimages The Miracles of St James · Invitatio: Venites omnes cristicole (1'13) · Responsorium: O adiutor omnium seculorum (8'41) PETER ABELARD [1079-1142] Abelard and Heloise: from Saint-Denis to the Paraclete Monastic Song · O quanta qualia (6'09) · Virgines caste (8'18) · Planctus cigne (3'10) · De profundis (11'19) Towards the Gothic Era Saint-Martial of Limoges and Aquitaine · Resonemus hoc natali (3'19) · In hoc anni circulo (7'40) · Orienti oriens (2'19)
